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People with chronic conditions who received telephonic disease management coaching based on their level of health activation had fewer visits to the hospital and emergency department than people coached in the usual way, a study has shown.
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Preparing your staff for implementation of the Home Health Care Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HH-CAHPS) patient survey program requires a different approach than preparation for OASIS-C, says Sue Squibb, BSN, director of consulting services for The Corridor Group in Overland Park, KS. "
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Home health managers got a little breathing room when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a delay in the implementation requirements for the Home Health Care Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HH-CAHPS). Many providers needed the additional time to focus on implementation of OASIS C [Outcome and Assessment Information Set], which was initiated in January 2010.
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Embark Health, Daytona Beach, FL, now offers an online solution to help people plan for end-of-life health care decisions.
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Parents and clinicians caring for children with brain tumors might experience significant challenges near the end of life due to the neurologic deterioration that often occurs in these patients, according to a study in the March issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
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A survey of parents who had a child die of cancer found that one in eight considered hastening their child's death, a deliberation influenced by the amount of pain the child experienced during the last month of life, report researchers at Minneapolis-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in the March issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
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Black and Hispanic Medicare beneficiaries with heart failure appear less likely to receive hospice care than white patients with the same condition, according to a report in the March 8 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
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Ensuring employee safety requires more than a set of policies and procedures. It requires immediate action and thorough investigation once an employee reports an unsafe situation, says Robert W. Markette Jr., an attorney with Gilliland & Markette in Indianapolis.
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End-of-life discussions can begin when someone is diagnosed with a life-limiting illness, says James A. Tulsky, MD, director of the Palliative Care Center at Duke University Medical Center, in Durham, NC.
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The real culprit for why physician conversations with patients about end-of-life care occur later rather than sooner is that physicians in medical schools primarily are trained to treat rather than talk, but that appears to be changing.
